The clinic and elsewhere : addiction, adolescents, and the afterlife of therapy by Todd Meyers(
)14
editions published
between
2013
and
2016
in
English and French
and held by
1,245 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and
economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience
of substance abuse and its treatment. In recent years, novel pharmaceutical therapies have given rise to both new hopes for
recovery and renewed fears about drug diversion and abuse. In The Clinic and Elsewhere, Todd Meyers looks at the problems
of meaning caused by drug dependency and appraises the changing terms of medical intervention today. By following a group
of adolescents from the time they enter drug rehabilitation treatment through their re-entry into the outside world--the clinic,
their homes and neighbourhoods, and other institutional settings--Meyers traces patterns of life that become mediated by pharmaceutical
intervention. His focus is not on the drug economy but rather on the therapeutic economy, where new markets, transactions
of care, and highly porous conceptions of success and failure come together to shape addiction and recovery. The book is at
once a meditative work of anthropology, a demonstration of the theoretical and methodological limits of medical research,
and a forceful intervention into the philosophy of therapeutics at the level of the individual

Realizing the witch : science, cinema, and the mastery of the invisible by Richard Baxstrom(
)18
editions published
between
2015
and
2016
in
English
and held by
821 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Benjamin Christensen's Häxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary
scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of satanic initiation, confession under torture, possession, and
persecution, Häxan creatively blends spectacle and argument to provoke a humanist re-evaluation of witchcraft in European
history as well as the contemporary treatment of "hysterics" and the mentally ill. In Realizing the Witch, Baxstrom and Meyers
show how Häxan opens a window onto wider debates in the 1920s regarding the relationship of film to scientific evidence,
the evolving study of religion from historical and anthropological perspectives, and the complex relations between popular
culture, artistic expression, and concepts in medicine and psychology. Häxan is a film that travels along the winding path
of art and science rather than between the narrow division of "documentary" and "fiction". Baxstrom and Meyers reveal how
Christensen's attempt to tame the irrationality of "the witch" risked validating the very "nonsense" that such an effort sought
to master and dispel. Häxan is a notorious, genre-bending, excessive cinematic account of the witch in early modern Europe--Realizing
the Witch not only illustrates the underrated importance of the film within the canons of classic cinema, it lays bare the
relation of the invisible to that which we cannot prove but nevertheless "know" to be there"--

Knowledge of life by Georges Canguilhem(
)12
editions published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
445 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Francois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges
Canguilhem exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of
Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays and lectures, Canguilhem offers a series of epistemological histories that
seek to establish and clarify the stakes, ambiguities, and emergence of philosophical and biological concepts that defined
the rise of modern biology." "How do transformations in biology and modern medicine shape conceptions of life? How do philosophical
concepts feed into biological ideas and experimental practices, and how are they themselves transformed? How does knowledge
"undo the experience of life so as to help man remake what life has made without him, in him, or outside of him?" Knowledge
of Life is Canguilhem's effort to explain how the movements of knowledge and life come to rest upon each other."--Jacket

Chagas disease : history of a continent's scourge by François Delaporte(
)1
edition published
in
2012
in
English
and held by
332 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Note d'éditeur : "François Delaporte's Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect,
and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and 1911, Carlos Chagas described an infection (pathogenic trypanosome), its intermediate
host, and the illness that he believed it caused, parasitic thyroiditis. Chagas's work did not lack significance: the disease
that came to share his name would be one of Latin America's most serious endemic diseases. However, the clinical identification
of the disease through "Romaña's sign" (a palpebral edema or swelling of the eyelid) some decades later marked a transformation
in the general medical knowledge of the disease and its basis altogether. Not only was the disease entity that Chagas had
described shown to be a nosological illusion, but twenty-five years of scientific controversy turned out to have been based
on a misunderstanding. The continued use of the term "Chagas's Disease" even after Cecilio Romaña's discovery thus refers
to a fundamental ambiguity. Delaporte dispels this ambiguity by re-examining the various discoveries, dead ends, controversies,
and major epistemological transformations that marked the history of the disease--a history that begins with the creation
of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro and ends in the forests of Santa Fe in northern Argentina. Delaporte's study
shows how an epistemological focus can add depth to the history of medicine and complexity to accounts of scientific discovery."

Anatomy of the passions by François Delaporte(
Book
)7
editions published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
222 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The study of facial expression and its musculature undertaken by Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne in 1862, an attempt
to secure biological meaning in the natural language of the emotions, resulted in the pioneering Méchanisme du physiognomie
humaine. Duchenne, who used photography to document his experiments, inspired Charles Darwin's Expression of the Emotions
in Man and Animals (1872) and had a significant influence on artists (his teachings were incorporated into the curriculum
of the École Normale Supérieur des Beaux Arts). Through Duchenne, François Delaporte provides a remarkable philosophical
and historical examination of expressive physiology during the mid-nineteenth century and considers the science of emotion
as a means of revealing inner life upon the surface of the face. The central concern of Anatomy of the Passions is how techniques
of studying facial musculature became a point of contact between existing and novel understandings of the body's expressive
anatomy. Delaporte shows that Duchenne entirely reordered the knowledge and limits of expressive physiology in science and
art. The face became a site where the signs of inner life are silently revealed, not yet betrayed by speech, but brought forth
by reflexive physiology or by technical manipulation

Selected writings on self-organization, philosophy, bioethics, and Judaism by Henri Atlan(
Book
)9
editions published
in
2011
in
English
and held by
139 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
During the last thirty years, biophysicist and philosopher Henri Atlan has been a major voice in contemporary European philosophical
and bio-ethical debates. In a massive oeuvre that ranges from biology and neural network theory to Spinoza's thought and the
history of philosophy, and from artificial intelligence and information theory to Jewish mysticism and to contemporary medical
ethics, Atlan has come to offer an exceptionally powerful philosophical argumentation that is as hostile to scientism as it
is attentive to biology's conceptual and experimental rigor, as careful with concepts of rationality as it is committed to
rethinking the human place in a radically determined yet forever changing world. --Book Jacket

The human body in the age of catastrophe : brittleness, integration, science, and the Great War by Stefanos Geroulanos(
Book
)6
editions published
in
2018
in
English
and held by
97 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often
absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? Stefanos Geroulanos
and Todd Meyers uncover a fascinating story of how medical scientists came to conceptualize the body as an integrated yet
brittle whole. Responding to the harrowing experience of the Great War, the medical community sought conceptual frameworks
to understand bodily shock, brain injury, and the wildly divergence between patients. Geroulanos and Meyers carefully trace
how this emerging constellation of concepts became essential for thinking about integration, individuality, fragility, and
collapse far beyond medicine: in fields as diverse as anthropology, political economy, psychoanalysis, and cybernetics. Moving
effortlessly between the history of medicine and intellectual history, The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe is an intriguing
look into the conceptual underpinnings of the world the Great War ushered in

The ways we stretch toward one another : thoughts on anthropology through the work of Pamela Reynolds by Todd Meyers(
)8
editions published
between
2017
and
2018
in
English
and held by
94 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another is a collection of essays on the work of Pamela Reynolds. The essays take cues from
Reynolds' decades-long contributions to the field of anthropology in different ways. The authors weave Reynolds' groundbreaking
scholarship on the anthropology of childhood--of labour, of family, of resistance, justice, war and suffering--through the
terms of their own work, in places and contexts that may at first appear quite distant from the villages of Zimbabwe and townships
of South Africa that feature in Reynolds' ethnographies. The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another is about anthropologists stretching
in thought and practice toward one another, between generations, toward the people encountered in the field, through worlds
entered and departed, and how, in turn, these worlds lean into our own. At the core of each essay is a question about how
we learn, how we pass lessons on, how we assume the mantle of anthropology for understanding the contemporary world--something
that often requires folding intellectual friendships into the equipment of our practice. The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another
demonstrates how a master anthropologist has come to shape the priorities of others, in terms that are both creative and aware

Cytomegalovirus : a hospitalization diary by Hervé Guibert(
)4
editions published
in
2015
in
English
and held by
43 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Herve Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his
hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the
disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human"--

Violence's fabled experiment by Richard Baxstrom(
Book
)4
editions published
between
2017
and
2018
in
English
and held by
18 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Baxstrom and Meyers examine how violence and an unmarked, stubbornly persistent conception of 'nature' weave into the fabric
of the human in the recent work of three important filmmakers. For Werner Herzog, the salience of prehistory links new cinematic
formulations to a long Western tradition of metaphysics, marking man's break with nature, his fall into consciousness and
history, and his impossible effort to grasp the violence of his descent. In Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing and The
Look of Silence, the display of seemingly 'unrepresentable' violence rendered through reenactments of killings performed by
the original perpetrators against Indonesian 'communists' in 1965-66 operates according to logics of trauma and shame, advancing
a troubling ontotheology that seeks to neutralize politics and ethics in favor of a vague, curative transcendence. And finally,
the films of Lucien Castaing-Taylor offer a picture of nature as a radically open, colossally empty present--nature not as
a domain of redemption or restoration for us, but something that overwhelms us, evades us, and crushes us in its path

Anthropologies(
Book
)2
editions published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
9 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Experimente im Individuum Kurt Goldstein und die Fragen des Organismus by Stefanos Geroulanos(
Book
)2
editions published
in
2014
in
German
and held by
7 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
'During his escape from the Nazis, the neurologist Kurt Goldstein wrote a book in 1933-34, which brought together the findings
of years of clinical research on brain injury, aphasia, tonic muscles and perceptual disturbances in a plant. The structure
of the organism would become his masterpiece, a large-scale synthesis of his neurological, physiological and therapeutic approach.
Goldstein developed in a concept of the individual, which goes far beyond the borders of normally with his name placed on
the connection aphasia research and neurology and should lead to a comprehensive reassessment of the terms norm, health and
healing in medicine and psychiatry. Experiments in the individual examined Goldstein's concept of organism, patient and self-reference
to the close linkage of its activities as a physician, researcher and epistemologist. Beyond the holistic and vitalistic debates
on Goldstein's work situate Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers Goldstein's epistemological criticism and therapeutic innovations
within a context of changes in physiology that are driven by the violence of the First World War. Using recently rediscovered
films research the authors focus on the experimental research, which is the structure of the organism based on the book, not
least brings Goldstein therapeutic concerns expressed. Finally, they explore Goldstein's far-reaching philosophical influence,
including in the work of Ernst Cassirer, Georges Canguilhem and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.' Publishers website

La clinique et ailleurs by Todd Meyers(
Book
)1
edition published
in
2016
in
French
and held by
4 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Farming across borders : a transnational history of the North American West by Timothy Paul Bowman(
)1
edition published
in
2017
in
English
and held by
2 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Agricultural labor in the US-Mexico borderlands. Pecan shelling and its discontents: migrant industrialization in Depression-era
San Antonio / John Weber -- From the golden age of cotton to sorghum: Mexican women's labor in agro-industries along the Texas-Tamaulipas
borderlands / Sonia Hernandez -- The betabeleras of Western Nebraska: gender, labor, and the beet sugar industry / Tisa M.
Anders and Rosa Elia Cobos -- Dias de descanso: reassessing the social history of los braceros and the transformative role
of migration / Matt Caire-Perez -- Agricultural labor in the US-Canada borderlands. Picking, posing, and performing: Puget
Sound hop fields and income for aboriginal workers / Paige Raibmon -- "We are tied together ... in a hundred different ways":
farmers and farm organizations across the forty-ninth parallel, 1905-1915 / Jason McCollom -- "Done for another year": the
resilience of Canadian custom harvesters on the North American plains / Thomas D. Isern and Suzzanne Kelley -- Agriculture
and transborder water issues. "There may be bloodshed": the US Reclamation Service, localism, and water conflicts in the Montana-Alberta
borderlands, 1900-1910 / Anthony E. Carlson -- The liquid frontier: water and sustainable development on the US-Mexico border
/ Stephen P. Mumme -- Afterword: NAFTA, agriculture, and the greater west / Sterling Evans -- Contributors

Experimente im Individuum : Kurt Goldstein und die Fragen des Organismus by Stephanos Geroulanos(
Book
)1
edition published
in
2014
in
German
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
'During his escape from the Nazis, the neurologist Kurt Goldstein wrote a book in 1933-34, which brought together the findings
of years of clinical research on brain injury, aphasia, tonic muscles and perceptual disturbances in a plant. The structure
of the organism would become his masterpiece, a large-scale synthesis of his neurological, physiological and therapeutic approach.
Goldstein developed in a concept of the individual, which goes far beyond the borders of normally with his name placed on
the connection aphasia research and neurology and should lead to a comprehensive reassessment of the terms norm, health and
healing in medicine and psychiatry. Experiments in the individual examined Goldstein's concept of organism, patient and self-reference
to the close linkage of its activities as a physician, researcher and epistemologist. Beyond the holistic and vitalistic debates
on Goldstein's work situate Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers Goldstein's epistemological criticism and therapeutic innovations
within a context of changes in physiology that are driven by the violence of the First World War. Using recently rediscovered
films research the authors focus on the experimental research, which is the structure of the organism based on the book, not
least brings Goldstein therapeutic concerns expressed. Finally, they explore Goldstein's far-reaching philosophical influence,
including in the work of Ernst Cassirer, Georges Canguilhem and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.' Publishers website